• Kraken Rising

  • Alex Hunter, Book 6
  • By: Greig Beck
  • Narrated by: Sean Mangan
  • Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (506 ratings)

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Kraken Rising

By: Greig Beck
Narrated by: Sean Mangan
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Publisher's summary

The Arcadian returns to the dark ice in a reprisal of one of his first and most deadly missions. But this time the stakes couldn’t be higher.

In 2008, a top-secret US submarine went missing on its test voyage off the coast of Antarctica. After years silent, its emergency beacon is suddenly activated, but strangely, the beacon is emanating from a point miles below the ice sheets of the frozen continent.

The race is on.

The Chinese government, alerted at the same time as the Americans, is after the submarine’s secrets. And the Americans need to retrieve their technology, quickly and quietly, from a place now marked as an international forbidden zone. With the reluctant assistance of petrobiologist Aimee Weir, Alex Hunter and his team of HAWCs return to the location of their first mission together. But only a few members of the team know the truth. A treacherous horror lies in wait for them deep beneath the Antarctic ice.

©2015 Greig Beck (P)2015 Bolinda

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Fun but drags

Fun read but it drags at several points. I like the author and narrator. I will read other books by the same author.

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Similar but good

This latest Alex Hunter book is very similar to the rest of the series. That's both good and not so good. You know what is going to happen cause you've heard it before but it is still an entertaining listen.

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Kraken Rising? More like Kraken Snoozing.

Kraken Rising by Greig Beck

Riddle me this Beck-Man:
Q: What good is a super solider (Captain America) if you don’t let him kick some serious bad guy butt?

Q: What good is the scariest most powerful monster stalking the dark places of the planet - some thing that feels like & rivals the great Cthulhu in pure alien evilness if you hardly ever see it?

Q: What is the sense of having all THAT awesomeness in a story unless you actually show the monster battling the super solider to stop it from threatening the human world?

Unfortunately, in this book these two incredibly awesome elements are both superseded by the possible start of WWIII - between the USA and China.

A dramatic political thriller?

Sure, WW3 is scary,
But I got this book cause it had the first two elements in it.
I thought they were gonna’ go for the battle royal against each other.
I paid a ticket for Captain America VS Cthulhu - Round 2!
DING!

Instead I get 14 hours of tense political and military drama. Hours of sneaking around the underground world looking for Chinese troops. Watching political higher-ups play footsie with dangerous political scenarios.

Heck if I wanted to see that I could turn on the evening news.

Yes, and I HAVE already seen Ice Station Zebra, thank you very much.

Very sad and disappointed in this Greig Beck novel. He was my new favorite…
Now I’m heart broken. (Sniffing)

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Phantoms

If you’ve listened to books by Greig Beck before, how does this one compare?

I have listened to all of Beck's books and liked them. This one is entirely too long. If he cut it by 1/3 and got to the point I would not have fast-forwarded through much of it. The Hawks behave uncharacteristically stupidly--they did not believe anything they had heard and proceeded to barge ahead. That is, "Let's yell at each other even though something wickedly large and dangerous is listening!!" I was really disappointed with Casey, a soldier that has been very cool to this point. The Cate (Kate? I'm listening, not reading) character was really stupid when she encountered the "new world" and Alex was too patient with her. That part was a fail. But, I forged ahead because it's Greig Beck.

What does Sean Mangan bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

I like this narrator a lot and his pronunciation of some words is more amusing than annoying.

Was Kraken Rising worth the listening time?

If you don't mind a lot of filler.

Any additional comments?

This book reminds me a bit of Dean Koontz's "Phantoms", but under the ice, as well as the giant snail in Sterling Lanier's "Unforsaken Hiero" (a fave).

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A good one...the Kraken has been done to death now

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Greig, not sure why you felt you had to do this one..I felt like I was Beneath the Ice AGAIN and didn't need to be. This was good and I enjoyed the progression, but let the Kraken die. Let's just use our imagination and say those babies won't will starve and freeze and do not need to be revisited again. Sean, good job. I like your narration skills. Listener, this is good Greig. It's got some new stuff in it. It's got some old stuff in it. I'd say get it, try and if you can't get it, return it. He's worth the effort!

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Great Book!

One of the best in the series! It keeps you on edge clear through the book.

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Continued Consistent Good Stuff

It's as It's said....a non-stop roller coaster ride with all of the up and down Excitement!

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Good

This is a good special forces book series with a little sci-fi twist to it.

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Giant Squid

Enjoyed this adventure. The amount of unexplored ocean is astonishing. We have reached the moon but haven't truly explored our own planet.

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One of the best in the Alex Hunter series so far!

I enjoy how the characters have evolved through the series.
The science and facts and legends that the author brings together to spin the stories really impress me.
The research portion at the end of each book are equally interesting.
Cant wait to “read” the next one.

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